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Chapter Five: The McConnell Tapes

Illustration | Libby McCrohan

The Cathal McConnell Tapes: Tape One

  • 17 Tracks
  • • Now Playing:

Greeting, talk / Tommy Peoples, speech in English

Tommy Peoples,

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  • Greeting, talk / Tommy Peoples, speech in English

  • The mountain reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Twin Katies, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The turnpike, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • I'm over young to marry yet, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The roving bachelor, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The blue eyed Lass, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Lavin's favourite, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The green hills of Tyrol, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The maid of Athens, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Kitty O'Neill's, barndance / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • An feochán, slow air / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The moving bog, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Brogan's ferry, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The belles of St. Louis, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Bonnie Anne, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The banks, hornpipe / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

The Cathal McConnell Tapes: Tape 2

  • 35 Tracks
  • • Now Playing:

Introduction, talk

Tommy Peoples,

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  • Introduction, talk

  • The creel of turf, jig ; The Monaghan jig / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Spoken piece, talk / Tommy Peoples, speech in English

  • Lost and found, jig / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The Galway rambler, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Gan ainm, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The Highland man kissed his granny, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Jenny Nettle's fancy / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Tie the bonnet, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Mulqueeney's, hornpipe / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Gan ainm, jig / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Gan ainm, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The mint in the corn, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Scartaglen, reel ; Drowsy Maggie, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The Heather breeze, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The flowers of Red Hill, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Travers', reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The otter's holt, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The Gallowglass, reel ; Pull the knife and stick in in again, jig / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Arkle Mountain, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Richie Brennan's played as a reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Conversation, talk / Tommy Peoples, speech in English

  • Jackson's, reel ; The oak tree, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Kit O'Connor's, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The Blarney pilgrim, jig / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The man of the house, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The boys of Portaferry, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Cathair Rua, reel ; The wild Irishman, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Bean an Tí ar Lár, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Toss the feathers, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Langstrom's pony, jig / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • La Cosa Mulligan, reel ; The green fields of glentown, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Gan ainm, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • Peg McGrath's, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

  • The Highland man who kissed his granny, reel / Tommy Peoples, fiddle

Jenny Nettle's Fancy from Ryan's Mammoth Collection